The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature

Praseeda Gopinath received her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, SUNY and author of Scarecrows of Chivalry: English Masculinities after Empire (Virginia University Press, 2013). She is co-editor of special issues of South Asian Popular Culture and Sounding Out!. She has published widely on masculinity, Twentieth Century British Literature, postcolonial, film, star, and sound studies. Laura Brueck received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She is Professor of South Asian and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (Columbia University Press, 2014), and has published translations of several Hindi literary texts. She is a co-editor of Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship (University of Michigan Press, 2020) as well as special issues of South Asia and Words Without Borders.

INTRODUCTION: DECOLONIZING FUTURES

ONE: POSTCOLONIAL AND DECOLONIAL DIALOGUES



Ania Loomba, Problems and Possibilities in Field Formation: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies



Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities: A Manifesto



Leela Gandhi, Notes Towards a Future Postcolonialism



Gurminder Bhambra, Postcolonial and Decolonial Reconstructions



Chris Abani, Interview

TWO: NATURAL AND UNNATURAL WORLDS



Amit R. Baishya, Riddles of Sand: Storied Matter and Local Planetarity in Jatin Mipun’s “Tarun Peguk Agom”



Ashley Dawson, Environmental Insurrection: India’s Adivasi Communities and Environmental Struggles in Mahashweta Devi’s “Draupadi”



Stuart Cooke, Ethological Poetics: The Noisy Polis of a Decolonial Ecopoetics



Pramod Nayar, Writ on Water: Aesthetics and the Contemporary Catachronistic Novel

THREE: THEORIZING THE BORDER



Claire Gallien, Aridity-Line Literatures: Beyond the Postcolonial and into the Decolonization of Literary Practice and Theory in Al-Kuni’s (line above i) And Hawad’s Works



Adhira Mangalagiri, Comparison and the Search for Unmediated Encounter



Kalyan Nadiminti, Infections Sovereignty: Australian Offshore Detention and Viscerality in Behrouz Boochani’s Asylum Art



Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham, Post/Apartheid Cartographies and the War on Terror: Black Consciousness and Political Arab Identities in the Writings of Ishtiyaq Shukri



Louise Harrington, Critical Border Studies and De/Postcolonial Literature

FOUR: GENRE AS DECOLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL PRAXIS



Anjali Nerlekar, The Ground Beneath One’s Feet and the Span of the Postcolonial



Roanne L. Kantor, Of Mimicry and Misreading: Reevaluating the Politics of Surface from Homi Bhabha and Severo Sarduy



Katerina González Seligmann and Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, Feeling Un-national in the Caribbean: Reading Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Narratives in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Ominunlé



Jeong Eun Annabel We, On Faith and Fabulation: Decolonial Thought and Speculative Fiction

FIVE: IDENTITY POETICS



Rita Kothari, Creamy Layer: Pedagogies of Caste and Translation



Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation Citizen), Queer NDN Love: Poetics, Land, and Decolonial Eroticism



Danica Čerče, Objecting to Racialized and Gender-Based Violence in Aboriginal Women’s Poetry



Deepti Misri, Towards a Decolonial Kashmiri Feminist Poetics



Niloofar Sarlati, Sweet and Salty: A Taste of (Semi)translating Colonial Modernity in Iran

SIX: TECHONOLOGIES OF SELF AND COMMUNITY



K’eguro Macharia, Terrains of Relation



Scott Newman, African Literature’s Sonic Imagination: Sounds of Embodiment and Environment in Multilingual Writing



Roopika Risam, The Politics of Knowledge, the Politics of Data: Postcolonial Data Futures



Birgit Rasmussen, Colonialism, Literacy, and Decolonization: The Cherokee Writing System